
Project Nim
The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
2011 en 93 minutes
Rating: 6.8
Plot
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Trailer
Cast

Bob Angelini
Lab Tech

Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge

Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)

Stephanie LaFarge
Self

Herbert Terrace
Self

Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)

Jenny Lee
Self

Laura-Ann Petitto
Self

Bill Tynan
Self

Joyce Butler
Self

Renne Falitz
Self

Bob Ingersoll
Self

Alyce Moore
Self

James Mahoney
Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)

Henry Herrmann
Self

Cleveland Amory
Self (archive footage)

Marion Probst
Self

Chris Byrne
Self

Anna May Marsh
Signing Girl: re-enactment unit

Sarah Sakaan
Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit

Dennis Lauricella
Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit

Robert Nesi
Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi)

Scarlett Bermingham
Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit

Mike Devoe
Mike Devoe

Michael S. LePera
Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera)

Peter Elliott
Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)